By Daniel Reynoso Making Claims about Reality In the grand divide between philosophical positions, like that of theism and atheism, we all make a variety of claims about our world and the nature of reality. These claims can be true, false, or ultimately unknowable,...

By David Babuschkin The Value of Believing in Free Will For centuries philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that that a widespread belief in free will is crucial for civilization as we know it, since our code of ethics relies on the ability...

By Daniel Reynoso A Permeating Principle In our last post, we saw how Nietzsche framed his own existential philosophy of an unreserved and unabashed love and acceptance of his life, or fate, in its entirety, and we also saw how these principles became for him...

By Daniel Reynoso The Grand Design Last time we saw how Nietzsche used the terrifying prospect that Everything Returns to frame an existential philosophy of total and unreserved love and acceptance of one’s own life, or fate. This concept, called amor fati,...

By Daniel Reynoso The Missing Piece In our last few posts we saw how Nietzsche proposed a thought experiment as a way to introduce his insight that time may be a circle and that everything in our lives may repeat and recur over and over again forever. We also...

By Daniel Reynoso Everything Returns: An Existential Imperative? In our last blog post, we saw how one prominent view regarding Nietzsche’s notion that Everything Returns claims that this idea works as a kind of existential imperative, a kind of moral challenge...